Janulus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Gastrodontidae.

Janulus
Temporal range: 13.65–0.0 Ma[1] Miocene to Present
Janulus stephanophorus (Deshayes, 1850)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Gastrodontidae
Genus: Janulus
R.T. Lowe, 1852 [1]

Species

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Species within the genus Janulus include:[2]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Janulus joossi (Schlickum, 1979): synonym of Discus pleuradrus (Bourguignat, 1881)
Species inquirenda

References

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  1. ^ "†Janulus Lowe 1852 (slug)". Fossilworks.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Janulus R. T. Lowe, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933898 on 2023-06-19